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ATI releases Catalyst 9.2 drivers: improvements in Crysis

by Tarinder Sandhu on 22 February 2009, 09:59

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD)

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It's that time of the month again. Guys, you probably hear this expression and are suitably depressed afterwards.

Fear not, because it's time for a new release of ATI's Catalyst drivers, and we're now up to v9.2.

For folk like us who test graphics cards on a regular basis, incumbent 9.1s didn't offer a whole heap of extra performance or, much to Sapphire's chagrin, driver support for the custom-designed Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB.

In particular, v9.2 brings about some 20 per cent improvements in Crysis (DX10) and Crysis Warhead (DX10), as well as five per cent in World in Conflict.

The release notes are over here, listing the performance increases and around 25 fixes for Vista and six for XP.

Download the drivers here.

The Avivo video converter portion is still not available to download, it seems.

Edit: it is, and you can find it here.


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Posted by kalniel - Sun 22 Feb 2009 11:24
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The Avivo video converter portion is still not available to download, it seems.
Oooh yes it is (sorry, was at a panto last night):

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonxavivo-xp
Posted by kakkou - Mon 23 Feb 2009 03:03
:) Gonna update driver now.

Cheers
Posted by Tarinder - Mon 23 Feb 2009 08:59
kalniel
Oooh yes it is (sorry, was at a panto last night):

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonxavivo-xp

Yup, it is, but it doesn't download from the main driver page for me. States ‘available soon’.
Posted by Anosh - Mon 23 Feb 2009 12:25
Tarinder
Yup, it is, but it doesn't download from the main driver page for me. States ‘available soon’.

It's _only_ available for winXP x86.

But 9.2 solved some instability issues 9.1 caused in COD4 on Vista x64
Posted by roadie - Thu 26 Feb 2009 11:25
This driver no longer crashes CCC when in the video options section for me. Not sure if GTA4 performance is any better though, it may have dropped. This is just my subjective feeling from playing the game as normal. It seems to be chugging a little, when it didn't before, although this may be down to me getting further into the game.